The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-26 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ()thing. 35 minutes atter 101 Evening ll minutes after 11 DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE ROMANS. Juat ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo. G ALLUS ; or, THE AGE of AUGUSTUS, A ROMANCE. Illustrative of the Life of the Roman people. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication from Newcastle, received on Monday, with some other correspondence, shall be attended to in a day or two. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o'clock. , (1 ''o• . 4 .; Tx, >lllx+ WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" 1S NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : EDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1838. The citizens of London are at length beginning to exhibit signs of discontent with the Corn-laws. The two wards of Bread-street and Langbourn have both taken the subject into consideration, and agreed to resolutions favourable to the repeal. Next the Com mon Council, it is to be presumed, will take the matter up, though that body is so bound up with a nefarious and corrupt system, which is almost as bad as the Corn laws, that we doubt whether much may be expected from it. Like Mr. DrxoN at the Langbourn ward, and like the President of the Board of Trade, the Com mon Council will probably assert, under the influeNce of a. similar interest, that there are many difficulties on the subject, and will hesitate or stand still. Every body who has examined the question, is well aware that difficulties exist ; but they are augmented every day, and the longer the Corn-laws are suffered to re main, the more enormous will they become. Those who made the scoundrel laws, and those who support them, ought to have found out that before. 'They ought to have foreseen these consequences, or where fore did they deliberate when they made the laws ? It is, however, only when an act of justice is proposed to the suffering people, that difficulties are ever heard of ; and none are suffered, for one moment, to stop the gratification of the landowner's ava rice, or the statesman's love of coercion. The admirers of restriction, the advocates of bounties, the anti-free-trade men, have got the nation into a fix ; and we have only to choose between national ruin and the abolition of the Corn-laws. That the Londoners begin to move is the best sign we have yet seen. The metropolis being the seat of the Court, of the pampered Bank of England, and its connected monied classes, who are the landlord's mort gagees, being the spot where the chief of the landed gentry spend a great portion of their income, where the members of the Episcopal Bench reside for a con siderable part of the year, it suffers far less from the comparative decay of our trade than other towns and cities. It feels only at a long inter val the reflux of the wave that swallows up the Nottingham hosiery and the Birmingham hardwares. Now, therefore, that it begins to move, we may be sure that the agitation of the distant towns has a good cause, and will be effectual. We copy another piece of rhodomontade from the Herald to-day, of which the assertion that the specu lators engaged in certain branches of our foreign trade, have proclaimed war to the knife against the farmers and landowners of Great Britain, is of a piece with its assertions that PEEL'S Bill was the work of the free-traders, and that the hand-loom weavers have been starved by what has never yet had any existence. The Manchester manufacturers have declared war against robbery by law, and they are well convinced that to put an end to such an atrocious system must be equally beneficial to every part of the community, except the robbers, and will be especially beneficial to the pining farmers and the half-starved agricultural labourers. The public will be delighted to learn that the Coal Monopoly, by- which the inhabitants of London have been robbed for many years, is in a fair way of meeting the fate which monopolies deserve—dissolution. What with the exertions, we are sorry to say, of but a small portion of the Press, the indefatigable zeal of Mr. BRADFIELD, the inquiry before a Committee of the House of Commons. and last and best, the decided energy of the present LORD MAYOR, directed both by words and deeds against the " tricks" and " wicked , combinations" of the monopolists, those who can cor rect the evil are now compelled to act with something like sincerity and good faith. The LORD MAYOR yesterday stated that he had received a letter from the Navigation Con?mitteee informing him that they were most anxious to give every encouragement to those who labour to break up the combination. Perhaps these ,gentlemen can tell why this anxiety has been so long in manifesting itself—why the Gas Companies have been allowed to import their coals without any of those restrictions which raise the price paid by the helpless inhabitants some fifteen per cent. above that paid by the Companies, and why every species of obstruction .has been thrown in the way of Mr. YOUNG, who has been combatting for years the regulations by which vessels are unnecessarily detained in the river to the injury of the ship-owners, and the still greater injury of the consumers. We do not assert that there has been any collusion between any members of the Com inittee and the monopolists and the Gas Companies, because, on the authority of Messrs. COPELAND and DtxoN, they are all honourable men, and the regula tions are the best that can be devised for the public good ; but still we must come to the conclusion that the Navigatio n Committee, till the LORD MAYOR took up the subject has been worse than useless, and that their best possible regulations have had the effect of !limiting the number of voyages a-year to eight instead of eleven, thereby increasing the freight alone nearly one-third, and putting a n utter stop to free competi tion. The Committee could not be ignorant of the fact. The system has been carried on f or several years, and from this system alone has the monopoly derived its existence. We see in the Man s ion-house report a calculation, that by al l o win g competition, a saving may be made to the public equal t o the value of 360,000 tons a-year, or the small sum of half- a - m u_ lion ! On a former occasion we reckoned the saving at 800,0001. a-year, and we are confident that is nearer the mark. The inhabitants of London robbed o f nearly a million a-year on one article alone by thos e who should protect their interests ! Could there be a better argument for Corporation Reform ? Since the above was written, another scene has taken place at the Mansion-House, which proves, be yond doubt, the gross negligence or something worse, of the City functionaries, and confirms the worst suspi cions entertained against the monopolists and their abettors. Mr. ROaINSON, the Chairman of the Na vigation Committee, waited on the LORD MAYOR, and informed him that it was no fault of the Committee, but the fault of the Board of Trade, that vessels were * 2 s/ 4 allowed to remain fifteen days in the Poo l to unload, and 1 4 , 314 that he considered five days, or seven at most, amply sufficient. Fifteen days, he considered quite prepos trA.. terous, and this preposterous regu lation is the work of 4 . ***.:J;v the Board of Trade, over which, Mr. POULETT , 43: --K.770 THOMSON presides. He also stated, that while for f THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1838. merly only 147 colliers could unload at a time, no less than 186 vessels were at that moment unloading in the Pool ! And what does he prophecy as the result ? That good coals may be received into cellar in London, for 20s. 6d. the ton ; or about one half the amount paid by the poor at present. We refer our readers to a report of the proceedings before the Greenwich Magistrates on Friday last, in a Church-rate case. It appears that the Churchwar dens of thin parish had taken out summonses against several of the inhabitants who demurred to the pay ment of a Church-rate made last February, this being , a necessary preliminary to the issue of distress war rants. The granting of the warrants was successfully resisted by Mr. ARNOLD, the barrister, on behalf of the recusants. The grounds of objection taken by Mr. ARNOLD were--Ist, That the rate was in part retrospective. 2d. That several of the items in the Churchwarden's budget were for purposes not neces sary to the decent celebration of divine worship ; such for instance, as tuning the organ, winding up the clock, and mending the beadle's boots. 3d. Because it was unequal, some persons having been passed over by the Church-wardens, on their own authority, as being poor, and others having, in virtue of a composition, been rated on a scale lower than the non-compounding rate-payers. 4th. Because an election of Church wardens had taken place between the laying of the rate and the demand of payment. Any one of these objections would have been suffi cient to prevent the interference of the Magistrates, who, according to the Act which gives them jurisdic tion in such cases, are stopped in limine when the validity of the rate is disputed, and notice given them by the party disputing. The Justices of Greenwich, therefore, could not, and did not hesitate to dismiss the summonses which they had issued for the attendance of the refractory rate-payers. The matter, however, can not rest here. By the arrival yesterday at Liverpool, of the Packe Ship Independence, from New York, we have received United States and Canada Papers—the former to the 7th instant inclusive ; from which interesting extracts will be found in another part of The Sun. Rumours of the capture of a Russian agent, and of preparations for another invasion of the Canadas, include nearly the whole of the intelligence from the British Provinces. Congress was occupied with the preSentation of various reports and documents by the Executive, elucidatory of the various official statements contained in the PRESI DENT'S Message. In the House of Representatives on the 4th instant, Mr. JOIIN QUINCY ADAMS, ex- Ptesident, moved the following resolutions, the reading of which excited the greatest attention : " Resolved, that a Committee of members be appointed, with leave to send for persons and papers to inquire and re port to this House— " 1. Whether Andrew Stevenson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States in Lon don, is, or has recently been engaged in a public newspaper controversy, involving his personal integrity and the honour of his country, whose representative he is, with Daniel O'Con nell, a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. Whether the said Andrew Stevenson, holding the pri vileged character of an Ambassador, has, in concert with three other persons, citizens of the United States, one of them an officer in their navy, engaged in a conspiracy with intent to stop the wind, or in the language of the laws of God and of man, to murder the said Daniel O'Connell in a duel, or by a premeditated provocation to a duel. " 3. Whether the said Andrew Stevenson, after a written demand of explanation, in the form usual among duellists, as preliminary to a challenge, and with the intent to follow it up by a challenge, preconcerted with the said three other citizens of the United States, did accept of an answer from the said Daniel O'Connell equally unsatisfactory to the codes of genuine and of spurious honour, and thereby tacitly admit the truth of the imputation upon his honour, at which he had professed to take offence. "4. Whether the said Andrew Stevenson, in these transac tions, has violated the duties of his office as an ambassador of peace, the laws of nations, the laws of the land to the Govern ment of which he was accredited, the privileges of the British House of Commons, in the person of one of its members, and the interest of his own country. " 5. Whether the said Andrew Stevenson has, in these transactions, so conducted himself as to require the constitu tional interposition of this House, by impeachment or otherwise." It was subsequently moved that these resolutions should lie on the table. A division took place, when the motion was carried by 140 votes against 75. Should they be eventually adopted, the excitement throughout the Union will be very great, as their dis cussion will open again the whole question of domestic slavery. The Russian Consul at Boston, seized as a spy in Montreal, was carried before Sir JOHN COLBORNE, who, after examining him on the charge of fomenting a rebellion, ordered him to be released. His Excel lency further directed the Attorney-General to furnish him with a letter of acquittal, which, having obtained, he returned to the United States. The liberal electors of Perthshire have given a grand entertainment to Mr. Fox MAULE. There assembled on this occasion a numerous and splendid array of the Reformers of that great County to pay a tribute of respect to a gentleman who, independently of what may be called his hereditary claim to the re gard of all who value c onstitutional liberty, has, in his own person, deserved well of the Reformers by he services which he has rendered to the cause. As we have inserted elsewhere a report of the proceedings at considerable length, it is almost un necessary to occupy the attention of our readers with observations on the able speech of Mr. MA U LE. They . will peruse it for themselves, and in the rapid, yet comprehensive view which the Honourable Gentleman took of the state of our politi cal affairs, they will find the subjects of chief interest at the present moment sagaciously and eloquently handled. We think the Liberals of Perthshire have done them selves honour by the honour which they have conferred upon their former—and we hope their future— representative. That he is not their present represen tative is owing to the bribery, the fictitious votes, and the other base arts to which the Tories so un scrupulously resorted at the last election, but which the friends and supporters of Reform could not employ, because they were inconsistent with the prineples they hold, and indeed constitute a main part of the evil which Reform was intended to put an end to. The many representations which have been addressed to us within the last fortnight—most of them of a pri vate and personal nature—on the subject of Reforms in the British Navy, have led us, in vindication of certain statements upon which the friends of " things as they are," assume our complaints against the pre sent mode of conducting that branch of the public service to be founded, to republish from the Devonporl Telegraph a speech delivered in the House of Com mons, during the last Session of Parliament, by Ad miral Sir EDWARD CODRINGTOIsT, illustrative of the workin g of the system as regards the more especial objects of A r i stocrat i c so li c i tu d e i n t h e p ra ctical ope ration of all bra o n la c i h n e g s C of oni tl m ic iss p i ti o h n l s i . c service e — t the Officers h ground to tax. the Go vermneu t with a neglect of the claims of meritorious Officers, who, ftcm their educa tion, rank, and positio n in society, possess ti - iaans, , of making their complai nts k nown both to the pu bl ic and to the individuals charged with the administration of the Navy, the nation may be certain that the con dition of the p9or: ileyesl, ignorant, and unfriended sailor working before mast, is comparative;" infi nitely more wretched. And ye,: from the statements contained in that speech—statements which have since their delivery been well authenticated—is it not mani fest that Naval Officers are, to a great extent, at the mercy of the Lords of the Admiralty for the enjoyment of the pittances, in the shape of pensions, which they receive as the reward of from twenty to fifty years spent in the service of their country ? The Gallant Admiral, in the speech which we have quoted, dwells upon the hardship of depriving a brave Officer of his half-pay for the commission of an offence for which he was not brought to trial, and of which he was entirely innocent. Now upon this point we go much farther than the Hon. and Gallant Admiral. Pensions are not paid by the Admiralty but by the country—they are voted by the National Representatives as rewards fot services, honourable in themselves, and entitling the performers to such rewards ; and therefore we protest against the claims set up by certain servants of the Crown of authority to deprive the recipients of them on any pretence, not recognizable in a Court of Law, as sufficient to disinherit the possessor of any other description of property—as high treason, and the like. So long as Parliament votes the necessary funds for the payment of pensions to the Naval and Military Ser vices, there should be as little question of the right, once admitted, to receive them, as of the right of a landlord to receive rent, or a creditor a debt lawfully due to him. Besides the system of promotion in the Navy is calculated to prevent young men of ardent and aspir ing dispositions—requisites most essential in the cha racter of men whose trade is war—from entering a service in which it is an hundred to one if they ever obtain that degree of distinction which they might confidently look forward to in the Army. In illustration of this fact, the Honourable and Gallant Admiral, to whose speech we have just adverted, stated in the course of a debate in the House of Commons on the 31st of May, 1836, that there were then living eighteen Major-Generals who in twelve years were promoted from Lieutenant• Col onels to that high rank ; whereas there were fifty-four Naval Captains who had spent thirty-five years in the service without either promotion or a prospect of it. This statement was made from offi cial lists, and yet strange to say, it produced no effect upon the temper of the House. Though it might be presumed that a service which has contributed more to the glory of England than our army and diplo macy put together, would be the especial object of national gratitude, yet there is scarcely a Palace porter who does not take precedence of the oldest Naval Captain in the Pension List. To fight our battles and to win them too, is not half so profitable as to lacquey our lords, or even to sweep the floors of our public buildings. This is as disgraceful to the country as it is unjust to the veteran ornaments of a service, upon the proper maintenance of which depends the wealth, power, and glory of the British Empire. To improve the Navy we must begin by abo lishing the accursed system of impressment a system which ere this would have been produc tive of the ruin of this country, if the worst oppression was strong enough to efface from the minds of Englishmen those generous sentiments which have never yet failed to inspire them in the day of battle. When a motion for the abolition of impress ment was brought forward in the House of Commons in 1834, several Naval Officers expressed their convic tion, and among the rest Admiral CODRINGTON, that if the system of impressment was abolished seamen would enter the Naval in preference to the Merchant Service. But the system of impressment, in addition to its natural injustice, entailed upon Officers the ne cessity of treating the men with great cruelty. They were obliged to guard them as if they were felons, and to confine them on board when they might suffer them to go ashore, were they not bound to prevent every possible chance of their desertion. It is this confine ment that renders the service on board a Queen's ship really irksome ; for at sea there is not half the working to be done which is exacted from common sailors on board the best manned Merchant vessels. Abolish impressment ; hold out the same inducements to men to enter the Nary as is offered in recruiting for the army ; grant pensions for wounds received equally on sea and land ; and for one thousand seamen wanted the Admiralty will have ten thousand volunteering their services. Instead of manning ships with the refuse of our cities, the Government may select the very best men for the Naval service. For why is it that our seamen are unwilling to serve in Queen's ships ? Because Englishmen, however humble, have no taste for being treated as felons—for perilling their lives without the prospect of personal distinction or ade quate reward. Educated in the principles of freemen, they are averse to a service which would reduce them to a state of abject and perpetual slavery. And yet, though these sentiments were urged and repeated in the House of Commons ninety-eight years ago by Sir JOHN BARNARD and Mr. SHIPPEN, when opposing a Ministerial Bill for the arbitrary and cruel registra- ' tion of sailors, brought in by Sir CHARLES WAGER, we do not find that up to the meeting of the first Re formed Parliament, the Government of this country ever once saw that they accorded equally with the principles of sound policy and common sense. If we only reflect for a moment upon the vast facilities which a Government enjoys of rendering any service more an object of desire than aversion, we will be forced to express surprise at where the prodigious amount of prejudice, ignorance, and folly, could be found neces sary for the conducting of the administration of our Navy as it has been carried on, as regards seamen, for the last century. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been re ceived. The Ministerial prints no longer attempt to conceal the triumph of the Opposition ; but they inti mate that Ministers will risk another defeat before resorting to that most dreaded of extremities—a re signation. Their object in courting so many defeats is to ascertain more clearly the relative strength of the several parties who compose the majority. In the British Parliament, where there are but three parties alto gether, and where the distinctions between them are well defined, such a pretext for provoking divisions would be preposterous ; but in the French Chambers there are as many as six factions, each having for its watchword some political jargon in the form of a philosophical a x i om , whi c h, while it separates them from all others, is unintelligible even to themselves. The knowledge which Ministers seek is wanted for Court purposes. The KING dreads M. TRIERS, knowing that he will employ all his influence in re versing the present political system, and therefore, as a last resource, no pains will be sp are d to foment jealousies amon g the factions now disp ose d to un i te with the ex-Minister against Count MOLE. The t i( e humiliation IsG' sgrea of a change tobjectistotry, by a co a liti on , to o b v i ate h of syst em o f w hi c h all Europe knows him to be himself the propounder. We have the following letter from T oulon, dated the 20th December :—" The whole city i s full of an event of the most C le haignean, on road. The Surprise seriousurprinature,e brig, whicheomtaonodke placelast Lieutenant nigh t in ti board of which Mr. Raoul Rosette visited the coasts of Greece, had been admitted a few days ago to free pratique. This morning the captain of the brig and the officers, who had slept on shore, were expecting the boat which usually came to fetch them in the morning, when they learned that during the night, while the officer on duty was at rest, the crow in a body went on board the long boat, and abandoned the vessel ; it is not yet known what course they have taken. There remains on board only the officer on duty, the boatswain, and a cabin boy. The matter will be legally investigated. It is a repetition of what took place fifteen months ago, on board the Legere schooner. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, DECEMBER 24. Five per Cents., 109 f. •20e. Latest Prices...lo9C 15c. Four per Cents., 10If. 60c. nape per Cents., 7Bf. 25e. Jit.clpns, 2fi9sf. Ditto 2,685 f. Rente de Naples' 981: 60c Ditto 98t' 6, je. Roman. Five per'Cents., pi Spanish Actives, 16 ~ „„ Ditto 16i ( Belgian Five per Cents., D'o9 Belgian Three per Cents., 661. 50c. Belgian Bank, 580 f. iC,14;10 on I,oNDoN.—Onemonth,paper, 05f. 15c ; money,2sf. 15e; - "..resstontii4, —c.; money, 9.51. sk(MALAN ryNDS,--VIENNA, Dec. 15. ' M.44110,10:,3 ~ • IOB Five per Cen... Foer per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares , —AllgemcincZeitung, Dec.2o. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Disc. 24. —Wind E. S. E., fresh breezes.—Arrived and proceeded for the River the Iberia, Straughan, from Cadiz on the 23d. 25. —Wind N. N. E., moderate.—Sailed last night and this morning the whole of the outward bound. Came down from the River and sailed the Ceylon, Cox, for Honduras; Galatea, Proud foot, Algoa Bay; John Kendrick, Gibraltar ; Eliza, 1,11( Dublin ; Albion, Hemel, Constan tinople ; Enterprise, Gibbs, Whitehaven ; Milise, Charente. _ _ PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind N. E.—Arrived her Ma jesty's Meteor, from Woolwich ; Adventure, Seville ; Elizabeth Marie, Barkers, Amsterdam. Sailed her Majesty's ship Gre cian, for South America; Noloff, St. Übe's. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 24. —Wind S. W. to N. W.—Sailed the Minerva, Hamon, for London ; Friends, Larkin, ditto ; Belle Antonio, ditto; Pomona, Davis, ditto; Classina, Selupper, Amsterdam : Jonge Louis, Miller, ditto ; Lezina, Postenia, Rotterdam ; Leopold, Hamburgh. FALMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind S. W. to N. W., heavy gales with violent squalls.—Arrived the Sophia Maria, Henderson, from Amsterdam ; Tagus (steame), Symonds, London ; Tre vances, Magic, ditto ; Royal Adelaide (steamer), London ; Sirius (steamer), ditto. Sailed the Danube, Dodds, London ; Tagus (steamer), Symonds, Lisbon, &c. LtvtroooL, Dxc. 25. —Wind E., moderate.—Arrived the- Dorothy, Eales, from Calcutta; Hannibal, New Orleans; Or leans, Prince Edward's Island ; Independence, Rye, New York Mary Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick; Alexander, Alexan dria ; Grei hound, Odessa; Arestides, Leghorn ; Lausentine and Julie, Senegal ; Jupiter, Ostend. Sailed the Ambassador, Davidsou, for the Gulf of Mexico ; Leonard Dobson, Carpenter, New Orleans ; Enterprise Vaughan, Savannah. BRISTOL, DEC. 25.—Sailed, the Brisk, Love, for St. Mi chael's ; Isis, Brown, ditto. RAMSOATE, DEC. 25. —Arrived, the Clasenis, Theodore, from Amsterdam, for Marseilles, with loss of anchor and cable, and damaged, having been in contact on the 11th inst. on the Goodwin Sands. MILFORD, DEc. 24.—Arrived the Rose, Fitzpatrick, from Newport, for Waterford, with loss of bulwarks, &c. ; cargo shifted, having been struck by a sea ; the Golden Fleece, from Cardiff to Kinsale, with loss of sails, bulwarks, &c. Cow's, DEC. 25.—Sailed the Ida, Thomas, from London ; Mary, Hamburgh ; Aletta, Genoa. YARMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Emily, Thomas, from Rotterdam. RAMNOATE, DEC. 25.—Arrived off the Amity, from Ro• chester, after striking on the White Dyke, but without ap• parent damage. MARGATE, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Deux Freres, from Lon. don, assisted in leaky with loss of anchor and chain; Shan. non, Fox, from Messina. DOVER, DEC. 25.—Arrived, Lisette, Caroline, Bordeaux. SHOREHAM, DEC. 25.—Arrived, Alliance, Newfoundland. TORBAY, DEC. 24.—Sailed the Ann Gertrude, Ballie, and Rapido, Elluel, Malta; Jou,ge Runcken, Milleman, Bordeaux. SHIELDS, DEC. 24.—Arrived the David Milne, Pearson, from Rouen ; Diana, Cathe, do. ; Bee, do. ' • Randolph, Am sterdam ; Friends, Ward, Rotterdam ; Helder, Scormer, Antwerp; Soeblamster, Faleri, do. ; nabilde, do. ; Alert, Pattison, Harnburgh ; Prince Royal, Antwerp ; Mary, Handi side, Honfleur ; Brave, Heisdat, do. SHEERNESS, DEC. 23.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Pearl, from Bermuda. MILFORD, DEC. 23.—Arrived the Effort, Rees, from Que bec ; Betty Block, Rively, Liverpool, leaky, pumps choaked, &c., bound to London ; Louisa, Morgan, Newport, very leaky, bound to Gainsborough. POOLE, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Velocity, Whiteway, from Newfoundland ; Faith, Dinning, do. DUBLIN, DEC. 22.—Arrived the Milford, from London. CORK, DEC. 23.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Smith, from Prince Edward's Island ; Emma, Lope, Newfoundland ; Ade laide, Hutchins, do. ; Mary Jane, M'Cannon, St. John's, N. B. Put back the Fame, Batavia; John Francis, Savannah; Albion, St. John's, N. B. TORBAY, Dec. 23.—Arrived the Anna Gertrude, Boulet, from Amsterdam; Tonge Reemite Romt, do. ; Susan, Archer, St. Übe's. SCILLY, DEC. 23.—Arrived the Mountaineer, from St. An drew's, N. B. ; Collingwood, Bobbinson, Oporto; Marine-s, Azque, Bilboa. Arrived off port the Maria, Brown, from St. Andrew's, N.B. ST. IVit'S, DEC. 24.—The Rival, of Bristol, has just come on shore, outside the Pier, and is in great danger ; there is a heavy sea and a strong gale blowing from the N. N. W. The crew have refused to leave her. The Aquahart (brig) with loss of mast and foreyard, leaky and throwing cargo overboard, 30th ult., lat. 45, lon. 33, was spoken with by the Maria Brown, arrived off Scilly. The Iris, late Watts, Newfoundland, with loss of rudder, bulwarks, and other damage, bound to Jersey, arrived at Scilly. The Albion, Clarke, from Shoreham, with loss of the boats, some stanchions, &c., having been struck by a sea, ar. rived at Galway. The Perthshire, Cornwall, from Liverpool, bound to London, has arrived at Holyhead leaky, having struck on a rock. The Theodore, Jackins, from Bremen, for Bilboa, leaky, rudder unshifted, and with loss of boats, having been on the Goodwin Sands. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning —the French and Hamburgh mails, ship letters from Batavia, and New York to the 7th December by the Independence. The Exchange from New York conies at 10 per cent. ; Bank Shares, 1191. The Hamburgh mail of the 21st instant has arrived. Metalliques, 105,1 ; Bank Shares, 1,475. By accounts from Coblentz to the 18th December, it appears that for several days past there have been move ments in the troops of that province. The garrisons of Aix-la-Chapelle, Treves, and Cologne, are going to be augmented, and everything announces that a corps d'armec of considerable strength will be concentrated on the fron tiers of Belgium, to put in force the decision of the Con. ference. THE FUNDS. Christmas-Day having passed over, the public offices are again opened for business, as well as the Stock Exchange and foreign markets. Consols, which closed on Monday at 931 94 for the Account, opened this morn:ng at the above price. It is not expected that any operations of importance will take place in the funds this day. Exchequer Bills, 65 67. India Bonds, 62 64. Bank Stock, 2021 3. India Stock, 262 263. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active has rather im proved ; closed on Monday at 16i a ; at present, 16a ; Portuguese closed at 291 30 ; improved to 30. ; Three per Cnts., 191 20 ; Brazilian same as they closed, 76.1. 77 i ; Mexican, 22 23 ; Colombian, 25i ; Belgian higher, closed at 98 99 ; now 99 100 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half as they left off, 54i 55. It is rather extraordinary that letters are in town from from Montreal of the Ist inst., and do not mention any; thing respecting the arrest of the Russian Consul. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. lied. ..... 2X 3 , 4 3 per Cent. Cons. 3 b per Cent Ditto Red. 100!di Va l 4 New 3;6 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Jan. 5, 1860 14 13-16 Oct, 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 — Jan. 5, 1870 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - Exch. Bills, £1,000 Ditto 500 Ditto Small 65 67 pm Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Account 93 % 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bonds Ditto Accoun' 'to►q 30 IA Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account • Prussian Bonds - Russian Bonds, 182 0 - Ditto Account - Ditto Metallic - Spanish Bonds... - - Ditto Account Ditto Bonds 1834 Ditto Accost, 1614% French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account , Buenos Ayres Bonds , Ditto Account Chilian Bonds I Ytto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 18-25 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan per cent. 3 per cent. f —c: Eichange. —f. —c. Dutch, 2V, per cent. ....55 I Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent IOA I Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per Share. Great Western Railway Corapany ......... Paid. 6 76 Brighton 14Eailway • r ., London and Greenwic h Rail w a y C0mpany......... '2 , . 17 South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 9 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 24. 3per Cent. Consols 92% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. . p 3% per Cent. Stock Hi D be it i t n o i , a 4 n i n ie a r n c k ent. Ditto Reduced ... . .......... Ditto New, 1830 ........... I Din City of Dublin Steam Company per Cent. Debentures .. 91%, National Insurance Company Bank Stock . . .... .......... C ity Debentures, 4 per cent.: Royal Canal * Stock ............ Ballast Office Debentures,4 par Grand Canal Stock ......... cent HALF-PAST ONE. We have received Java Papers to the 9th September. They state from Batavia that accounts have been received from Amboyna, that great sickness prevailed there, and out of 11,700 inhabitants, 2,400 had died, 253 Europeans, and 761 native Christians, but the mortality had abated, and the last information was of a more favourable nature. There has beef a very thin attendance during th e morn ing of the members of the Stock Exchange, and the only feature worth notice is, that the Government broker pur chased about 5,000/. Reduced at 93. The affair of the Russian Consul being at length de tailed in a letter at the North and South American Coffee House, received fro m a person well informed, gains much credit in the city, although of an anterior date than previously received. Consols continue firm at 03-1. 94 for the Account ; Re duced has improved to 93 7 1 ; Exchequer Bills higher, 65 67 ; India Bonds 62 ; Bank Stock 2021 203. in the Foreign Market Spanish Active improved to 16 ; Portuguese 30 T hree per Cents., I9i 20 ; Brazilian 76i 771 ; Belgian, 99 100 ; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 54- I 55. No further arrivals or reports. THA.4-4 OPE.. c o * fog the Accogrit : l9o pi BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Benjamin Wood and William Keerney, inhabitants of the salubrious regions of St. Giles's, were brought up by two constables of the E division, charged with the follow ing robbery :—Mr. Lewis Garret, landlord of the King's Head public-house, Crown -street, Soho, stated on Monday night he packed up a hamper, containing 13 bottles of rum, brandy, whiskey, and some cordials, with a quantity of other articles and some wearing apparel, a gold brooch, and a 501. bill, which was not accepted, for the purpose of forwarding them to the country by coach. On the follow ing day the constables came to his house, bringing a por tion of the property, value 6k, which had been stolen from his shop. Constable Thorntom, 55 E, proved that about 12 o'clock on the night in question he saw the prisoner Wood in Church-lane, St. Giles's, and observing something bulky in his pocket he conveyed him to the station-house, when a bottle of gin, two bottles of peppermint, a number of lemons and oranges, with other articles produced, were found upon him. The other prisoner was apprehended at the same time by constable Hobby, on his separating from his companion, with bottles of brandy, wine, gin, whiskey, and other property produced, and on being taken to the station-house he said that the hamper was lying in the passage of 16, Maynard -street. The constable imme diately proceeded there, and found some other articles with the hamper, which were identified by the prosecutor as bis property. The prisoner Wood accounted for his possession of the property by saying that he bought it from a smuggler for 4s. ; and Keerney obtained what was found upon him as a reward for carrying home the basket for his companion.— They were both fully committed for trial. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES I FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds 62 Illitto Old Annuitie• 00% ;Ditto New Annuities lEx. Bills, 1,0001 2%d 67 pm. Ditto 5001 67 pm. Ditto 5001 67 pm. Bank Stock for Act. India Stock for , Consols for Opg 94 4 FUNDS Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 16% Ditto, Consolidated Frenth, 5 per cent —f. —c. Exchange —f —c French, ;per cent —f. Dutch, 25l per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. ;HARES.—(THIS DAY.) 76 10% 'ay --. QV% ray THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There are sevaral arrivals of all descriptions of Grain re ported to-day. The attendance of buyers has been limited, and being holiday week not much business is doing. Wheat remains firm at the prices of Monday. Barley well maintains last quotations. Beans and Pease are unaltered. More money is again demanded for Oats, and the sales made have rather exceded former terms. The flour trade this week re mains as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. 1,400 qrs. 2,q00 qrs. English Irish Fore"gn 877,0 Oats. '260 qrs. I,f 00 ea ckt. 4,5 4 0 brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The market both for Meat, Poultry, and Game was de serted, and no business whatever doing. . BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies to a fair extent, but trade dull. Turbot 7s. to 30s ; Soles 9d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters Is. to 4s. ; Cod • 2s. 6d and 3s. to 10s., 155., and 20s. each, and dear. Had docks 6d. and Is. each; Whitings 3d. to 6d. each. COLONIAL MARKET. Nothing whatever doing, nor will there be any thing until next week. COMMEMORATION OF THE GENE- RAL ASSEMBLY OF 1638. Thursday being the second centenary of the rising of the monorable Assembly of the Church of Scotland, held at Glasgow in 1638, a procession to the High Church, in me mory of the event, took place in this city (Glasgow), in the presence of a great assemblage of the inhabitants. The gentlemen composing the procession having assembled in Hutcheson's hospital and St. David's Church, they moved along by Montrose -street, George-street, and High-street, to the Cathedral, where a most eloquent sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Muir, of St. Stephen's, Edinburgh, the pre sent Moderator of the General Assembly. The Dr. chose for his text the 16th verse of the 68th Psalm, " Why leap ye, ye high hills ? This is the hill which God desireth to dwell in ; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever." In the course of his discourse the Reverend Doctor showed that after the first Reformation an incipient Popery had been gradually creeping in, and that the doctrines and simple ordinances of the Protestant Church were in danger of being completely swamped and bedimmed thereby—that their forefathers had observed all this, and had borne with it, until to do so longer would have been criminal. He defended the characters of the early reformers, who, although their zeal might have blown with somewhat of a vehement heat, had taken no rest to themselves nor sleep to their eyelids until they had procured for us the blessings of Protestantism, the blessings of parish schools, and many other blessings which at present wa enjoyed. He lamented in beautiful language over e k ie manner in which witty poets and infidel writers had ',air-. pooned these great men—the Hamiltons, the Wisharts the Knoxes, the Hendersons, and concluded I‘,y s h o wing that his hearers were strictly in the way '.",f duty when they assembled to commemorate a day on w hi c h so m uch had been done for the Church of Scotland. The Rey- Dr. Brown, of St. John's, preached an excellent sermon in the Barony Church at the same time. In the evening public worship was performed by the Rev. Mr. Fairbairs, of Bridgeton, in the Tron Church ; the Rev. Mr. Whyte, in Chalmers Chureh ; the Rev. Mr. Willis in Renfield street Original Secession Church ; the Rev. Mr. Duncan, of Milton, in Campbell -street Original Secession Church- At five o'clock in the evening 500 gentlemen sat doer , ' to dinner in the Trades' Hall. The company embraced large proportion of the most influential and respectable gentlemen of the city and neighbourhood, a great man)" clergymen, and numerous strangers from all parts o f the country. The supply of tickets fell short of the demand by many hundreds ; but as no larger room could be pro cured it was impossible to accommodate more, and as it was above 200 gentlemen were under the necessity of dining in side-rooms, who were received into the large ball after dinner. When the whole company had assembled, 1 1 -ie room presented a scene of a peculiarly animating. desrAiP tion. Henry Dunlop, Esq. of Craigton, Lord Prowst of the city, presided. A great number of clergymen a:A others subsequently addressed the meeting to the same e ffect 0 5 the Rev. Doctor in his sermon.—Abridged from the Scot tish Guardian. THE NORTIIEEN YACHT STEAMER.—It InaY now, we think, be fairly anumed that there is no longer any room for doubt as to the fate of this unfortunate vessel. The length of time during which she has been missing (since the 10th of Occober, a period of ten weeks), without any intelligence regarding her having been received, appears at length (but too convincingly, indeed) to preclude the idea by whi c h th e h opes o f t h ose more immediately ante; rested in her fate were for a time buoyed up, that she had been driven into a foreign port ; and, under these circun)." stances, we think it would be only a culpable trifling with the feelings of those parties were it any longer to be de lied that the only alternative conclusion which can reasonaUy be resorted to is the sad certainty that the ill•fated rer,sel has gone to the bottom, and that all on board perished, Where the disastrous event took place will perhaps for ever remain a matter of speculation ; but, judging from all the facts that have transpired, the most probable cor,secture appears to be that she foundered in Berwick Bay, and that It is to the viol ence o f t h e tremeudous sol:,alls from S.W., wi th which we were visited on Thursd4, the 10th of October, that the melancholy catastropb", is to be ascribed. Shortly after leaving North Sundeeiand, where, it will be recol lected, she landed a pasP,enger, she would probably encoun ter the storm in all it':, fury, which was so great that (we are credibly infortnr,d) on one occasion in the course of that day the wi n d bl ew so strong as to lift one of the fishing' boats, which were arranged along the beach rAt Holy Island, fairly up in the air, together with a small cobl e, which, b e i ng comparatively light, was whirled about by the force of the wi n d lik e a straw, as our informant descr ib e d i t. and, on falling to the ground, was dashed to pieces. Tiler ° is reason to believe that a gale of so violent a c haracter; would hav e b een f ata l to a vessel much better qualified t withstand its f ur y than the Northe rn Y ac h t i s repmsent ea to have been.—Berwick Warder. A foot traveller in Scotland enterect a villg e change-house (as a public-house is termed in f:tiat country) and called for a mutchkin (a half-pint of whifly.) He h a d just tasted it when the servant asked h:Lin if she shoa l " the bring any water. Water ! na, na, l ass i e ," was , 0 answer ; ony ane wh a i s no satisfied, wi' the water th at in't already mann be hard to please;' Lately, while Mr. Upton, of Ingmire Hall, was opt with his p ac k th ey ra i se d a hare., which after a fine run half an hour, on Bramhaw farm, took shelter in the gar" en a . of Mr. J ames 'Whitehead, t enant , b ut was instantly Wine-a upon by the dogs. Whilst in the act of killing poor Pa second hare s p rang up, b ut before she could Inaake their escape from he r na t ura l enem i es, she was also Dula' tbe victim. Mr. Upt on was standing by at the tin e, an d L the dogs were b e i ng fl ogge d f rom the spot, when a third qreth started up in the garden, which she instantly cleared , ' ll _, the whole pa c k i n pursu i t, and after a severe run th7e quarters of an hour, amid a h eav y hailst o ne shower 9-1. shared the same fate as did the former two. W hat re l i ct ders the circumstance remarkable is, that three hares sho uld be in the same limited place at one __carlisle garden being no more than thirty yards square. time, Mr. Patriot. Whitehead CURIOUS QUESTION OF IDENTITY. --At the Kingston Petty Session yesterday, a young m au „:;. *s charged with poaching, in company with another P ew The only evidence as to the identity of the accu sed . w as that of a groom, who at first swore positively tha t ' : as. the man ; but afterwards said he was almost Or: t r a i l h a e d in en ° , je ll! The defendant's solicitor brought forward several sure. tne: v se sg• who swore that defendant was not the man : others, the person with whom it was alleged be company. The solicitor offered to produce the reel w e o l quent, on a, promise being given that no proceed be taken against him. This, however, w a s refus ed ' Magistrates unanimously found the defendant guilty, ah fined him 40s. The solicitor endeavoured to induce theils Bench to re-consider their decision, as s uring them' on t. honour as a gentleman, that the defendant was innocen t- Failing, Failing, however, in this, a notice of a ppeal was jingle.' ingSP.nd thea diately given. The London mail did not arrive at this town on Thursday until upwards of thre, e hours after time, from th e bursting of one of the steam tubes of the engine w hen th mail was on thi3 railway. We are happy to state accident was not attended with any serious consequences tbc ; passengers on the train.—Devo t ann. Telegrtiph• parish " BOXING DAY. "_Some "--cirne of the largest part contractors—that is, contractors for the removal o f dusts &c.—in the metropolis have signified their intention to do; charge any of the men in their service who shall be proved_ to have gone round soliciting donations under the name of " Christmas boxes," •, 1 - consider in t ha t they p aid 0 6 ' • consiuering cient wages without subjecting the public to be e ttbe. that theto f taxed for the benefit of the nearest gin-shop, or bullied or non-compliance with the modest demands of these itiner• act mendicants. A , L, r , EFT-TIANDED COMPLIMENT.--The Glasgo w " ~ o rtrier says of Sir James Graham—" from all we hear,. the oration of the Right Hon. Baronet was in every way a' finished specimen of art," Within these few days herrings, which have heft" aptly termed " the poor man's friend," have appeared great abundance in the Frith of Forth, particularly off Qucensferry, where the fishermen are now catching thelo in boat-loads. In all the visits of herrings to our Friths they have been only found on or near the ner'.h. shores but on this occasion, we understand, they i',ave. taken $ fancy t o th e sout h ern s id e , an d are a t prev e nt caught. withia tweuty yards of the harbour of SAO tiueensf Any- BRIT'S. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 93 3 per Cent. Ccas 33,i per Cent 100% , :sy,z, per Cent. Red 100% New 3},', per Cent 1013 Long Annuities to expire ._ . Jai). 186 ) - 14 13-16 i Oct: 1850 Jan. 1860 FOREIG Austnan, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent,. , 99%, Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayrt s, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent ... . Colomhan, 6 per cent. Ditto, 1824 Dani;h, 3 per cent 74% Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexiegm, 5 per cent Dittoe6 per cent., 1825 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent (CLOSING PRICE OF S Great Western Railway. London and Brighton Railway London and Birmingham Rail , Ditto Quarter Shares London and Greenwich Railw; South Eastern and Dover THE SILVER CHALICE OF ST. JOHN'S.—In last week's Journal it is pompously announced " that the Rev. E. Morris had been presented with a beautiful and VALUABLE silver Chalice" for the use of a small chapel or school-room in the upper part of the parish. Our readers will be astonished to learn that the chalice was a toy gam bled or raffled for a few days previously, at a bazaar then open at the Falcon Hotel, and is worth 10s. or 125.! ! ; This needs no comment. The "lucky bag" extended—trinket drawn, Quickly consecrated by the man of lawn ; Emblazoned forth in print next week is seen " The splendid gift of Barnes, of Tal-y-clyn." If Mr. Barnes should get a Title to Orders By THE GOWN, the spec. will not have been a bad one.--Welsh Paper. It is a singular fact, that the mayor, aldermen, and councilmen of Manchester, who have just been elected by virtue of the new charter of incorporation, have no build ing wherein to hold their meetings. There is a town hall and a manor court room ; the former, however, belonging to the Commissioners of Police, and the latter to the lord of the manor. The Commissioners of Police, who, along with the majority of the respectable inhabitants, were ad verse to the corporation of the borough, consider the char ter illegal, and refuse to countenance it, and the lord of the manor will not give up his room to the use of the wise acres without pay. The best of the joke is, that the cor poration has no funds, so that each alderman and coun cillor must bear his own expenses. The advertisement announcing the resolutions passed at the last meeting states, " That due notice will be given at the next meet ing." The government of Manchester is now divided into two parties, viz., the boroughreeve and two constables, ap pointed by the lord of the manor and corporation.— Morning Paper. MURDER IN MANCHESTER.-It will be recol lected that a short time back a murderous outrage was committed in Grimby-row, Manchester, upon the body of a man named John Cunningham. The circumstances were, that Cunningham was found by a watchman, with three deep cuts in various parts of his left leg, of a very serious nature ; and, on being asked who committed the outrage, he said that three men had stopped him, and that on his refusing to pay for a quart of beer for them they knocked him down, cut him with some sharp instru ment, and then robbed him ; that he knew one of the men, and that his name was Byrne. From his descrip tion of him, Byrne was apprehended, identified by him, and brought up at the New Bailey several times before Mr. Maud, and remanded, to give an opportu tunity to Cunningham, on his recovery, of appearing against him. It appears the surgeons of the Royal Infir mary, where Cunningham was lying thought it necessary to amputate the wounded leg. It was then thought proper in anticipation of the worst results from the operation, that the deposition of the poor man should be taken before a magis trate, and Mr. Maud attended for the purpose ; the evidence of Cunningham was then taken in writing, and differed mate rially in several respects from what lie had before stated, es pecially in reference to Byrne, who, on being taken before him, he now declined swearing to as one of the men who had attacked him, and Byrne was consequently discharged from custody. The operation was performed, but with little hope of success, and Cunningham survived it only six days, ex piring on Thursday. The circumstances of the atrocious affair are necessarily involved in much mystery, owing to Cunningham being too much intoxicated at the time to give such a full account of them as could have been wished ; and there are but faint hopes entertained that his murderers will ever be brought to justice. An inquest was held on the remains of Cunningham on Saturday, when a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown was recorded. An idle observation has been made, that chemistry has done much for medicine, but medicine has done nothing for chemistry. The same may be said of the feeders of prize cattle. The feeders have done much to improve the breed of beasts, but the beasts have not done anything to improve the breed of graziers. COGGESHALL CHURCH RATES.—On Tuesday last, Mr. Stephen Unwin was summoned before the Ma gistrates at Witham, by the Churchwardens of Cogges ball, for refusing to pay 11. 4s. 21 d. due for Church -rate. It will be recollected that some time since Mr. Fisher Un win was summoned for a Church-rate ; but it appearing on the production of the book that the assessment followed immediately after the minutes of the meeting, without the necessary heading, the Magistrates dismissed the com plaint. Since then the Churchwardens had followed up the resolutions of the Vestry by drawing out the rate in the proper form, with a heading setting forth that it was an assessment and rate at 6d. in the pound, for the ne cessary repairs of the Church, &c., made in pursuance of a resolution of the majority in Vestry assembled on the 23d of 'August, 1838 ; and certifying that the several particulars were true and corect as far as they had been able to ascertain them. Mr. Unwin appeared, attended by Mr. Mayhew as his solicitor. Mr. Mayhew contended against the legality of the rate, as it was not made on the day the resolution was agreed to. It was admitted that the rate was made in November or December. A long discussion took pace, in the course of which the opinion of Dr. Addams that the rate was a good one was produced. The Magistrates decided that Mr. Unwin must pay the rate. Mr. Unwin declared he should allow his goods to be taken—he should pay in no other way, and left the Court. SYDNEY, JULY 17.—We have much satisfaction in announcing that by the late arrivals from England in formation has been received of the formation of two com panies in London, for the purpose of establishing a line of steam-ship packets, of splendid accommodation, upon tbr: American plan, to proceed at fixed periods to and from these colonies. The gentlemen here who are connected with these companies respectively aro Messrs. Swanston, Learmonth, M'Killop, Furtado, Hewitt, and others. We understand that the voyage is to be made from London to Falmouth, Madeira, St. Helena, the Cape, Mauritius, Swan River, South Australia, and the ports of Sydney and Hobart Town. The return by the same course. The whole of this voyage is calculated to occupy less than ten weeks, the communication with Calcutta being now made regularly on the average of seventy days, although the Isthmus of Suez and the widest part of the Indian Peuin, sula is land traverse. The advantages to these oolonies of this certainty and rapidity of communication are toe ob vious to need remark, Property will of come become much increased in Woe, in consequence (If these colonies being Thus brought into so much cic,aer neighbourh oo d with Britain. Five steam-ships o f l a rge size are, we u n d erstand, actually now on th e p assage aut, to be empl oye d b etween Sydney, Hob,all, Tome, and South Australia. The gentle men here with whom these great benefits to th e „A my have originated are entitled to the ‘lAnks.—Murray's Reviews